Oeuvres du comte de Lacépède : comprenant l'histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares, des serpens, des poissons et des cétacés : accompagnées de 150 planches gravées sur acier, représentant au moins 500 animaux
Oeuvres du comte de Lacépède : comprenant l'histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares, des serpens, des poissons et des cétacés : accompagnées de 150 planches gravées sur acier, représentant au moins 500 animaux
SCNHRB copy inscribed in ink on t.p. of t. 1 & 2 (39088013490958, 39088013490990), half title of t. 3 (39088013491030): Remington Kellogg
SCNHRB copy has bookplate: In memory of Remington Kellogg. Stamp of t.p.: Remington Kellogg Library of Marine Mammology, Smithsonian Institution
SCNHRB copy has two extra volumes (39088013491071, 39088013491113), "Gravures", containing duplicates of most of the plates used in this edition, all hand colored (152 plates total). Plates numbered 101-112 from t. 1-3 are not included in these extra volumes; plates numbered 101, 102, and 103 in these extra volumes correspond respectively to plate nos. 114, 113, and 115 of t. 1-3
SCNHRB copy tomes 1-3 bound in red quarter-leather and buckram, marbled endpapers, with the original printed paper wrappers bound in
SCNHRB copy both of the extra plate volumes are quarter bound in calf and marbled boards, marbled endpapers; binder's title reads: La Cépède. Gravures
Notes
No title page found. No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found. Some plate text cropped at gutter.